From: Doug Wellington
>> Ugh. I've tried, I really have, but sheesh, that place is like MySpace, Facebook and Yahoo OMG! all combined into one. It's as if you find yourself in a mega mall when all you really wanted was a little specialty shop...<<
There are two kinds of forums/lists now. Those that are dying or are dead do to apathy and superficial dialog, and those that are a busy zoo of superficial dialog. Harmony Central, Gearslutz, and so on are all the same that way, but the few times I've ended up in Muffwiggler, it seemed to lower the bar even further, and it seemed like it consisted of nothing but no talent [EDIT BUTTON ON] ∗∗∗-hoppers, ra∗∗ers, glitchers, ∗∗∗∗∗∗∗, ecstacy pop∗∗∗∗ - light wand waving - pacifier sucking ravers, ∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗, and every other form of music hating, ∗∗∗∗∗ producing/consuming destroyers of culture. [EDIT BUTTON OFF] The idea of an intellectually stimulating conversation about synthesis or gear is nil there. Any audio file you click on, your senses are assaulted with ugly [EDIT ON] ∗∗∗∗∗ [EDIT OFF]. All of those forums consist of the blind leading the blind; dumb questions with dumb answers.
That's right, there's your cranky old guy with some edit button usuage. But hey, perhaps 1st, 2nd and 3rd impressions can be wrong and I just ended up in the wrong places there. I'll give it another look and see if there's more than just tweakers and their robo-porn.
Ah, "robo-porn" reminded me of a music reviewer on Guido's site (of Thelonious Moog fame). Guido's website now gone, last post 3 years ago on youtube, so another person who disappeared. That music reviewer is also sick of all the current synth garbage:
"The current revival in analog synthesizers has spawned a lamentable abundance of mechanically repetitive, amelodic, soulless robo-porn tracks that are banal at best and enervating at worst. Thelonious Moog once again treats us to real musicians playing real music by a real composer. Let's hope it starts a trend."